A sure-fire way to be a better dad is to spend more quality time with your child. A father who is patient, encouraging and attentive rather than controlling and critical during play time is much more likely to have a well-adjusted child later in life.

When I was growing up my parents had an area in the laundry room where they recorded the height of my sisters and me by measuring and then marking our height and the date on the wall. The one problem was that it wasn’t mobile and if we had ended up moving the original markings would have been lost.